Insider Selling: Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN (NYSEARCA:VYLD) CEO Sells 12,345 Shares of Stock

Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN (NYSEARCA:VYLD) CEO Mary Erdoes sold 12,345 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $306.57, for a total transaction of $3,784,606.65. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 639,047 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $195,912,638.79. This represents a 1.90% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN Price Performance

NYSEARCA:VYLD traded down $0.01 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $27.88. 456 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,292. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $27.43. Inverse VIX Short Term Futures ETN has a 1-year low of $22.19 and a 1-year high of $28.49.

Vanguard S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (NYSEARCA: VYLD) is an exchange-traded fund managed by Vanguard that combines broad exposure to large-cap U.S. equities with an options overlay designed to generate incremental income. The fund holds a portfolio intended to approximate the performance of the S&P 500 and implements a covered‑call (buy‑write) strategy, selling call options against the equity exposure to capture option premiums. This approach seeks to provide higher income than a plain‑vanilla S&P 500 index fund while maintaining substantial participation in the U.S.